A middle school teacher in southern New Jersey was struck by lightning on Wednesday as a snowstorm ravaged the East Coast.

Capt. Todd Malland, of the Manchester Township Police Department, says the woman was holding an umbrella while on bus duty outside the Manchester Middle School around 2:30 p.m. when the strike occurred.

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Malland says the woman felt tingling but didn't lose consciousness and wasn't knocked to the ground.

"The staff members in the vicinity were also shaken, however they helped [Geiger] inside the building and the nurse was able to attend to her," Manchester Schools superintendent David Trethaway said.

She was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

"[Geiger] is an excellent teacher who is well respected and loved by the staff and students and we are all very happy that she is going to have a full recovery," Trethaway said.

A second woman who had been standing underneath the umbrella but not holding it escaped injury.

The second major snowstorm to slam the Northeast in a week has produced reports of flashes of lightning and booming thunder.

Local meteorologist Tammie Souza said there were reports of thundersnow, or a "thunderstorm in winter conditions," around the time of the reported lightning strike.

"Instead of a quick burst of heavy rain that you would get, you get a quick burst of extremely heavy snow — maybe 2 or 3 inches an hour," she said. "You get the lightning, you get the thunder and you might get some gusty winds."